Email and Instant Messenger (IM) tools are helping us communicate better and more quickly across the globe. But many organizations are finding that internal conflicts between people are on the rise. One Midwest company found the two (electronic communications and internal conflicts) were related! With that in mind, guidelines on good email etiquette may be helpful.

Charlie the Tuna® is, according to StarKist® (his sponsor ), America's favorite tuna. Growing up we saw Charlie left behind in the water time after time only to be told, Sorry, Charlie! Too many are hearing that same kind of disappointing line these days because someone has phished (pronounced fished) their identity information and taken all their cash and assets before moving on. This has become the number one threat to consumers and financial institutions on the Internet. What exactly is phishing? How can we recognize it? What can we do about it?

We’ve seen it before, and we’ll see it again: technology is changing our world. Relatively recent major technologies that impacted our lives were the automobile and the telephone, radio and television, VCRs and microwave ovens, personal computers and the Internet. Now get ready for WiMAX! What exactly is WiMAX? How will it affect our lives and ministries? Let’s talk about it….

Bill Gates once said, “Why would anyone want more than 640k of RAM memory?” That was a couple of decades ago, and a lot has changed since then. Today’s PCs process more information faster than anything imagined in the early days of computing. The software is demanding, however, and needs a lot of resources to work well. The question is, “When is it good stewardship to upgrade computers?” At what point does it cost more to work with older computer technology than it costs to upgrade?

Most ministries today either already have digital projectors or are considering purchasing one. These great tools help us communicate the most important message of all more effectively. When looking for a projector, what features should you look for? And which projectors are really good rather than just what a local vendor has in stock? Let’s try to shed some lumens (projector speak for “light”) on the subject.